Fanatical Thoughts. EditorialFanatical Mails. Graham Andrews, Andy Boot, Clive Davies, Scott Carlson, Stuart Williams, Tom Tesarek, Nigel Taylor.Tom Tesarek – Us or Them?Tom Tesarek experiences a paperback bad trip when he drops three volumes of UsRob Matthews – Gold Medal Classic Murder TrialsRob checklists a rarely discussed slice of true-crime courtesy of the iconic Gold Medal.Tom Tesarek – Arizona: A Book OdysseyTom Tesarek ‘s epic voyage of self-discovery and paperbacks is a Homer’s Odyssey for the Paperback fanatic.Jim O’Brien – The Tale Of Two Dark AngelsJim O’Brien looks at the Dark Angel series including its origins in a newspaper strip and the evolution of the African-American heroine in 70’s popular culture.Artists Assemble #5: Screaming MetalFrench artists of the Metal Hurlant/ Heavy Metal school forever changed the world of fantasy art in the mid-70’s.Graham Andrews – The Pantastic SaintGraham Andrews goes undercover to investigate the earliest paperback editions of the famous spy character and his creator.Justin Marriott – Thud And BlunderThe Fanatic does battle with Lin Carter’s Year’s Best Fantasy series.Paul Bishop – Get Your Motor RunningThe actor and author makes his Fanatic debut with a look at the depiction of outlaw bikers in men’s adventure magazines.Jack Chalker – The Discovery At Red HookA reprint of “Irwin Binkin meets H. P. Lovecraft” with an obscure but relevant HPL reference in the title.Justin Marriott (ed) – Pulp Horror 5 (March, 2017)

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A Visual Guide To Frankenstein. 35 pages of the famous monster in comics, magazines and books.The Tie-Ins of Frankenstein. A look at the link between the film and book versions of the monster.The Lost World Of Frankenstein. Pulp-meister Andreas Decker looks at the German editions of Don Glut’s New Adventures Of Frankenstein series.Mister Frankenstein. An Interview with Frankenstein’s most famous fan and collector.In The Shadows. David A. Sutton traces the development of the British small press across two important decades.Straight From The Satyr’s Mouth. Pulp Horror interviews David Sutton about horror in the seventies and his own publishing imprint. Leslie Whitten: Night Stalker. Tom Tesarek looks at an early example of the contemporary vampire novel.The Michelangelo’s of Mutilation & Misogyny: Two volumes of Sex and Horror collect the outrageous cover art that appeared on Italian comic books.The Wicca Man. The occult fiction of Stewart Farrer, a leading light in the Wicca movement.David Morrell’s The Totem: A ReviewJustin Marriott [ed] – Men Of Violence #6 (March, 2017)

Blurb:What is this lingering fear of insects, arachnids, arthropods, crustaceans and those that slither… is it a hangover from the survival battles in the savannah or does it go deeper and further back than that in our evolutionary heritage? Unchallenged, the locusts, the maggots, the worms, the flies, the aphids and the termites may consume and destroy all that we have and hold dear. Creeping, slithering, crawling horror, science fiction & fantasy stories by nineteen of today’s top authors.

Blurb:Coined in the 1950s, Kitchen Sink described British films, plays and novels frequently set in the North of England, which showed working class life in a gritty, no-nonsense, “warts and all” style, sometimes referred to as social realism. It became popular after the playwright John Osborne wrote Look Back In Anger, simultaneously helping to create the Angry Young Men movement. Films included Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, The Entertainer, A Taste of Honey, The L-Shaped Room and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. TV dramas included Coronation Street and East Enders. In recent years TV dramas that could rightly be described as kitchen sink gothic include Being Human, with its cast of working class vampires, werewolves and ghosts, and the zombie drama In the Flesh, with its northern working class, down to earth setting. In this anthology you will find stories that cover a wide range of Kitchen Sink Gothic, from the darkly humorous to the weirdly strange and occasionally horrific.

January -YukonFebruary – Le Jour De La Saint-ValentinMarch – Fight The Good FightApril – Brock’s RevengeMay – The Glans Of OrlakJune -DuetJuly – A Delicate UndertakingAugust – Nostalgia Ain’t What It Used To BeSeptember – Satan’s Snuffbox (Pendennis Alone)October – Night Of The PumpkinsNovember – Day Of The PumpkinsDecember – From Beyond The GrateCoda – Voodoo

Blurb:SHUDDER – as you realise that Marshy’s got a book out.SCREAM – as you realise that you have a copy in your hand.SHRIEK – as you realise that you’re actually reading the damned thing.SIGH – with relief as you hurl the offending article into the waste paper basket.ALL YOUR FAVE’S AREN’T HERE!

12 Tales Of Terror to make your year seem even longer.

Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies … heck, there’s even a killer pe …. but that would be telling.

The latest release by Parallel Universe Publications is Things That Go Bump in the Night: A Treasury of Classic Weird, edited by Douglas Draa and David A. Riley. This is 368 page anthology of classic weird stories is the first of a series. Available as a trade paperback and an ebook.

The oceans have long been places of danger, mystery and horror. From ancient times there has been the terror that a trip might lead to edge of the world and the nameless place beyond its edge. There have been the strange lights of St. Elmo’s Fire. The sunken cities of Atlantis and Lyonesse. The Sargasso sea entrapping ships. The Bermuda Triangle. And within the ocean’s depths sea creatures both real and unreal. The great white whale in Moby Dick and the giant octopus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The oceans beckon us… and repel us. And storytellers have used the sea as a basis for ghost and horror stories down the centuries. In this anthology there are stories about phantom ships and their phantom sailors, weird encounters with spirits, a vengeful sea sprites, and sea serpents, and all manner of horror below decks. So, readers, take a passage with us to the weird realms of the benighted oceans!

Blurb:The Gothic is the most enduring.literary tradition in history, but in recent years friendly ghosts and vegetarian vampires threaten its foundations. The New Gothic is a collection of short stories which revisits the core archetypes of the Gothic – the rambling, secret-filled building, the stranger seeking answers, the black-hearted tyrant – and reminds us not to embrace, but to fear the darkness.

A dozen tales of terror fill this anthology including an original, never-before-seen story from the godfather of modem horror, Ramsey Campbell.